The "mask" has been a very divisive issue.

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18. The right thing is not losing elections.

If we lose elections over mask mandates then there won’t be any mask mandates anyway. I fail to see how we are going to make people wear masks.

People will say “Hospitalizations are up” to what extent? Who is being hospitalized? The vaxxed? What percentage? Is that up in comparison to a low point? This disease is here to stay. It is never going to go away completely. Ever. Just like all other sorts of viruses that have spikes and hospitalizations. We have tools to try to curb those things and the people that want to use them should absolutely do so and have relatively low fear about it being serious for them.


But forcing people to do things is a losing political strategy that in the end is counter to what people want anyway. Get vaxxed, mask when appropriate, and let’s try to hold on to some elected seats.